A captivating love story about two people who bring out the best in each other both professionally and personally. Agent: Sarah Younger, Nancy Yost Literary. It’s a slow-burn romance done perfectly right. Romance fans are sure to be swept away by Sosa’s empathetic characters as they make the most of a ridiculous situation. As Max and Lina work together, sweet, deeply apologetic Max wrestles with his attraction to his brother’s ex-fiancée while learning to understand Lina in a way that Andrew never did. Sosa’s characterization of Lina is masterfully nuanced, depicting her experiences as a woman of color, her struggle to balance her parents’ expectations with her own happiness, and the double bind of being accused of being overly stoic when she controls her feelings and overly emotional when she expresses them. Now, Lina’s up for a potentially life-altering job-but to get it, she’ll have to work closely with Max. Lina’s white fiancé, Andrew Hartley, sent his brother and best man, Max, to deliver the awful news, and Lina has blamed him ever since. Three years ago, Afro-Latina wedding planner Carolina Santos was left at the altar. Sosa (the Love on Cue series) imbues a soap operatic premise with weight and heart in this fantastically fun contemporary rom-com.
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Two further developments proved, up to the present day, particularly momentous for the conception of the dream: Melanie Klein’s development of the concept of “unconscious phantasy” and the extension of psychoanalytic treatment to psychosis, originally declared inaccessible to psychoanalytic therapy by Freud. In the dream and its interpretation, psychoanalysis, in its founding period around 1900, identified the “royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious in the psychic life.” But already in the development of Freud’s work itself, the dream lost its central position: As early as in the 1920s, psychoanalysis ceased to be a theory and practice defined by dream interpretation-a caesura in a process which completed itself in 1950. This was all going to help her in her adult career as a writer, a journey that would take her to becoming a fully fledged author of highly successful novels reaching audiences on a global scale. Creating deep and intricate inner worlds, she always had a strong and complex imagination, whilst simultaneously she was able to easily pinpoint what made people, and ultimately her characters, tick. She knows exactly what her readers are looking for, providing them with characters that are easy to relate to, whilst creating dialogue that’s both natural and flows easily off the page.īorn in 1973 on the 24th of February, Rainbow Rowell grew up in Nebraska, America, as she started to develop a life-long passion for both reading and literature, as she built upon her love for the written word. With novels such as ‘Fangirl’ she’s got a clear and articulate voice that’s adept and understanding of her audience, all of whom await each release with eager anticipation and excitement. Coming from Omaha, Nebraska in the United States, the American author Rainbow Rowell has been writing for a number of years now, having produced her long line of well received and unique brand of young adult and contemporary adult fiction. Their father, a good-natured Vietnam veteran prone to violent outbursts, was arrested and charged with murder. In 1988, Sloan Hadfield’s brother Ridge went fishing with their father and never came home. One of the best UK writers working today' - Steve Cavanagh Show book 'Howard Linskey is a powerhouse storyteller of exceptional skill. 'Linskey delivers a flawless feel for time and place, snappy down to earth dialect dialogue mixed in with unrelenting violence and pace' - Times 'One of the single most dramatic events of the Second World War, Linskey makes the mission of Jan Kubis and Joseph Gabcik impossible to put down' - Northern Echo Ungentlemanly Warfare is a captivating historical thriller about a pivotal and dramatic event from the Second World War. Harry Walsh is ruthless, unorthodox and ungentlemanly. If Walsh fails, there is no prospect of allied victory in Europe. Loathed by his own commanding officer, haunted by the death of his closest friend and trapped in a loveless marriage, Harry Walsh is close to burn out when he is ordered to assassinate the man behind the ME 163 Komet, Hitler's miracle jet fighter. A soldier and a spy, an officer but not quite a gentleman, Captain Harry Walsh is SOE's secret weapon. In the 21st century, humanity is reaching new heights of scientific understanding – and at the same time appears to be losing its mind. Indeed, if humans were fundamentally irrational, how did they discover the benchmarks for rationality against which humans fall short? A list of the ways in which we are stupid cannot explain how we’re so smart- how we discovered the laws of nature, transformed the planet, and lengthened and enriched our lives. But cognitive scientist and rational optimist Steven Pinker argues that this cannot be the whole picture. A user’s guide to rationality acts as a follow-up to the bestselling Enlightenment Now Humans today are often portrayed as cavemen out of time, poised to react to a lion in the grass with a suite of biases, blind spots, and illusions. The summer before I entered the sixth grade, a set of fraternal twins and their family moved into our neighborhood. The theme of Bette Greene’s award-winning library is always the same - Bullying! According to critics, Bette Greene has given a voice to the voiceless, changing the course of young adults’ literature in America.įor nearly 40 years, Bette Greene’s books have been banned, censored and challenged. This same novel outsold Prince Charles’ book in his own country.īette Greene holds the honor of being the only author included in “Writers of Holocaust Literature”, without having been a victim of the Holocaust.Īs a 21st century master author, Bette Greene uses the social media platforms to reach out and touch her readers, Generation - X, Y and Z. Bette Greene’s first book, “Summer of My German Soldier”, won the first “Golden Kite” award. Within the heartbeat of her storytelling and the realism of her prose lies Bette’s demand that her readers feel what she feels and sees what she sees, taking us beyond our differences.Īs the 20th century’s youngest professional news reporter, Bette published her first news story at age eight. Bette continues her legacy of writing and speaking for the victimized. Bette Greene’s award-winning classic novels will be celebrating 40 years in print!Īs an award-winning author, screenwriter and news reporter, Bette Greene is read worldwide in over 16 languages. Now she candidly reveals the good and the bad, the loving and the cruel sides of John. And with the perspective only years can provide she also tells the compelling story of her marriage to a man who was to become a music legend, a cultural hero and a defining figure of the twentieth century.Ĭynthia has seldom talked in any detail about her marriage and the painful events that followed John’s tragic assassination in 1980. In John, Cynthia recalls those times with the loving honesty of an insider, offering new and fascinating insights into the life of John Lennon and the early days of the Beatles. And Cynthia Lennon, John’s first wife, was an integral part of the swirl of events that are now an indelible part of the history of rock and roll. Their ten-year relationship coincided with the start of the Beatles phenomenon-from Liverpool’s dockside clubs to the dizzying worldwide fame that followed. When she was eighteen years old, a girl named Cynthia Powell met a boy named John Lennon and they fell in love. The Extraordinary Story of a Man, a Legend and a Marriage Hers is a life of adventure in Detroit, the hub of the motorcar boom and the fastest growing city in America. Melanie wonders what more there is to learn from Violet's past. Its secret compartment holds Violet's weathered journal-within it an intriguing message: Take from this story what you will, Melanie, and you can bury the rest. Until she makes a discovery while cleaning her Jordan MX car, a scarlet-red symbol of the Jazz Age's independent women that she inherited from her great-great-great-aunt Violet. With an ex-fianc and a pending promotion at a Kentucky bourbon distillery, Melanie has figured out that love and career don't mix. Melanie Barnett thinks she has it all together. A cherished heirloom opens up a century of secrets in a bittersweet novel about family, hard truths, and self-discovery by the author of Millicent Glenn's Last Wish. "Thus the belief that a few strangers dislike you can alter your time perception," concludes Hammond. Suffer rejection and time starts to drag, in short. Asked to estimate the passage of a minute, they reported times that were far longer than test subjects who had been told people liked them. However, your mood, health and attentiveness also affect the rate at which time appears to pass.Ĭonsider the fate of innocent test subjects who were tricked into believing no one on their psychology experiment liked them. Much has to do with the event being experienced. And you know what she means: that moron moment when you realise you have locked yourself out of your hired car, with your keys inside its boot, seems to stop time in its tracks while the most pleasurable experiences race by at light speed. Findlen argues convincingly that natural history as a discipline blurred the border between the ancients and the moderns, between collecting in order to recover ancient wisdom and the development of new textual and experimental scholarship. She follows the new study of natural history as it moved out of the universities and into sixteenth- and seventeenth-century scientific societies, religious orders, and princely courts. Italian patricians, their curiosity fueled by new voyages of exploration and the humanist rediscovery of nature, created vast collections as a means of knowing the world and used this knowledge to their greater glory.ĭrawing on extensive archives of visitors' books, letters, travel journals, memoirs, and pleas for patronage, Paula Findlen reconstructs the lost social world of Renaissance and Baroque museums. Yet fifty years later the first museums of natural history had appeared in Italy, dedicated to the marvels of nature. In 1500 few Europeans regarded nature as a subject worthy of inquiry. |